I'm out of breathe just climbing stairs! What are we going to be like towards the end of the pregnancy!!

Lou n bumps
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Tue Jun 13, 2006 4:31 pm

wendyphant27

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lou - glad everything went well check your pm i left you a message chick

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Tue Jun 13, 2006 6:37 pm

newmum82

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Hi everyone.

With regards to starting to show - i am big time. I was only a size 6/8 before i fell pregnant - now i look like ive eaten all the pies. Luckily, the weight is just round my belly which is a blessing but im already unable to do up my size 8s (nightmare). I did get told that Boots sell something that you can attach to your trousers/jeans to give you some "breathing space". I dont know what it is called, but is about £12 (cheaper than buying a whole new wardrobe just yet) and allows you to get as much use out of your pre-pregnancy clothes before spending out on those dodgy elasticated waistbands that im determined not to wear just yet! Ive also started getting the little dark line from from belly button - has anyone else??

Im still suffering quite bad with morning/all day sickness and nausea atm, tried everything possible, now just accepting the fact that if im gonna be sick, im gonna be sick and there aint nothing me or anyone else can do to stop it.

Ive been looking into having a 4D scan done and after what ive been told and seen, im definitely going to do it. My appointment is not until beginning of September which seems ages away but, might as well be as prepared as possible!! Let me know if anyone else is considering it!

Another disappointment today. I'm due December 8th but The midwife told me that I if I go overdue I am likely to be spending Christmas in labour as they will quite happily let me go on until 2 weeks+ overdue unless there is a problem.

Christmas has always been a really traditional special "family" time for us and the thought of not having the baby home for Christmas and missing out on all the family traditions and spending Christmas Eve/Day screaming in agony is so disappointing. I'm terrified of hospitals and the thought of spending my special christmas in hospital is terrifying and depressing.

As its a first baby I'm likely to go over as well.

There was some snug woman in my ante natal class who just laughed at me saying I didn't want to be in hospital for Christmas and started going on about how her baby was due November 22nd so will "definitely be home for Christmas". I felt so annoyed at her - it was insensitive as she could see how upset I was.

Anyone else facing this disappointment?

Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:00 pm

wendyphant27

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Good news darling if you go 14 days over then that is december 22nd so in worst case you should be home by christmas

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Thu Jun 15, 2006 5:26 pm

nikki85

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Hi i'm months pregnant now and due on rd december cant wait

Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:20 pm

LadyMoonlight

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wendyphant27 wrote:

Good news darling if you go 14 days over then that is december 22nd so in worst case you should be home by christmas

Oh God I hope so - the midwife was so unsympathetic. She just laughed at me!

Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:13 am

LadyMoonlight

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newmum82 wrote:

Hi everyone.

Im still suffering quite bad with morning/all day sickness and nausea atm, tried everything possible, now just accepting the fact that if im gonna be sick, im gonna be sick and there aint nothing me or anyone else can do to stop it.

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Speak to your doctor about this - its not true that there is nothing you can take for sickness in pregnancy.

I wasn't coping with my sickness as I have a terrible phobia of vomiting which was getting me into a real state. None of the "self-help" or natural methods (sipping lemonde, ginger nuts, ginger tea - yuk!, dry biccies dry toast blah blah) did ANYTHING for me, so the GP gave me a drug called Cyclizine. One of the other GPs at my practice wouldn't prescribe it - he said he wouldn't prescribe ANYTHING in pregnancy - so I spoke to a gynaecologist friend of mine who said that Cyclizine is fine to take for sickness in pregnancy. The more understanding female GP at my practice prescribed it for me.

I has certainly helped a lot as I know that even if I feel queasy I won't BE sick, so its given me my confidence back. And as far as our last scan goes, our baby is looking great! No adverse effects on him at all!

Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:19 am

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Morning Sickness

I also suffered with extreme morning sickness and I felt so bad I dragged myself down to the Doctors demanded to see someone, the doctor took one look at me and prescribed (not sure of name) some pills to help the nausea. They worked well and my two little ones are doing fine too.

Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:31 am

newmum82

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Thanks for the tips on morning sickness. When i started getting it really bad, i looked forward to the fact that by about now (15 weeks and 2 days) it would be over with, which it isnt! I found the best way now is just be sick and get it out my system. Something obviously aint meant to stay down so no point in trying to keep it down. It feels like ive had a permanant white wine hangover for weeks (ummm what i would do for a glass of wine!).

With regard to due dates and worried about being pregnant at Christimas, im due on the 6th so, if going by what the midwife says, you only let you go 14 days overdue so anyone due before 10 Dec should be okay. I think i'll be eating plenty of hot curries and taking hot baths around that time.

Hope everyone is well.

Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:15 pm

LadyMoonlight

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newmum82 wrote:

so anyone due before 10 Dec should be okay. I think i'll be eating plenty of hot curries and taking hot baths around that time.

My due date was 10 December but the Consultant changed it to 8 December as I have 26 day menstrual cycles instead of 28 day ones.

Does that make a difference? Will I still have the baby before Xmas?!?!

OK this is really owrrying me now:

I've read that when you are induced you have to go to hospital to be constantly monitored and it can still take 4 or 5 days from the date they start inducing you for the baby to be born. So they could take me in on 22nd December and I could still be there on Christmas Eve/Day as nothing has happened!!! Is there any way to get them to do it earlier? Do you have to stay in hospital if they are giving you pessaries?

I'm feeling desperate here.

Sat Jun 17, 2006 2:05 am

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The induction process can take a couple of days OR a couple of hours. Each person is different. You need to stop worrying about it at the moment and try to enjoy your pregnancy otherwise it will be over in a flash. There are other thing you can do to help things along the way like taking raspberry leaf tea daily from 36 weeks on.

The other thing I was thinking chick is that I really appriciate how much you hate vomitting but try to think of how well you have coped with being sick for the last couple of weeks one day of labour with a little sickness can not be as bad as it has been for you for the past couple of weeks. Have faith in yourself you can do it.

Also going off again (like I always do) It is no good now as it is coming to a close for the summer but I have heard of aqua natal classes which are in a couple of the swimming pools near us and wondered if you fancied them in September? That offer is to any one in the soiuth wales area.

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Sat Jun 17, 2006 5:56 pm

LadyMoonlight

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The other thing I was thinking chick is that I really appriciate how much you hate vomitting but try to think of how well you have coped with being sick for the last couple of weeks

If only you'd seen the state I'd been getting myself into you wouldn't say that!!! I haven't coped at all well actually. I've stopped working, stopped going out, basically become a hermit! I have gone into actual shock a few times after being sick. I am scared to eat for ages after I've been sick. Its really taken its toll on me. I hadn't been sick for 10 years and don't want to against for another 10!

I really don't want to be sick in labour - what with all the pain etc and not being at home (I can barely cope with being sick at home - if I'm anywhere else my overwhelming urge is to get home NOW!! I've even asked my boyfriend to turn around when we're half way to Kent because I felt sick!!!) its going to be horrendous. I'll probably go into shock again and I can't face that - it might even harm the baby. If I'm lying on a hospital bed and feel sick I'm going to be trying to get out of it and come home - seriously, my fear is that bad. Sadly I can't have a home birth as OH is really against it and it would cause too many rows.

I'm going to try and do everything I can to avoid it - I'm going to press it home to the doctors and ask for an anti-emetic, I'm going to avoid eating (other than sipping water and nibling dried fruit or something) after labour has started and I'm probably not going to have pethidine or much other pain releif. Other than that I don't know what I can do.

Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:41 am

LadyMoonlight

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Another thing - say they decided to induce me on December 22nd - would I have to stay in hospital the whole time until labour started, even if it took 4 days of repeat pessarys etc (which would mean me missing Christmas)?? Wouldn't I just be allowed to go home after the inital pessary/induction and wait to see what happens?

Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:42 am

wendyphant27

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Sorry chick but no, once they start the induction then you do not leave until baby is here.

THe hospital that I am delivering in tend to induce at ten days over. BUT as I am due December15th that makes it christmas day I am a shift worker and have worked the last 7 christmas days this is my first off since finishing university and it would be just my luck to spend it in hospital having this little one

Never mind I am so desperately in love with this little one already I would stand on my head naked on top of a hill on christmas day as long as he/she is ok (may be not quite naked cos that might put people off their xmas dinner ha ha ha)